Kuraray’s MonoSol division has announced that its water-soluble film manufacturing plant in Portage, Indiana, has been awarded NSF International Certification Guideline 229, Functional Foods.
The recent staging of swop 2017 (Shanghai World of Packaging) attracted 600 international and domestic exhibitors and 20,053 visitors. The visitors traveled from nearly 80 countries and regions including China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Russia, South Korea, the U.S. and Vietnam to the SNIEC fairgrounds to see latest innovations for this sector. The four-day exhibition was jointly organized by Messe Düsseldorf (Shanghai) Co., Ltd (MDS) and Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd.
International ink supplier Siegwerk Druckfarben AG & Co. KGaA will acquire family-owned Tupahue Tintas, a São Paulo, Brazil-based market leader for flexo and gravure printing inks and varnishes. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Berry Global, Inc., has joined The Recycling Partnership (TRP), a national nonprofit that applies corporate funding to improve recycling efforts in communities across the country.
The Iowa Area Development Group (IADG) has named Marion, Iowa-based press-to-close zipper manufacturer Elplast America, Inc. the 2017 Outstanding Business of the Year.
WaveGrip has launched another multi-packing innovation that provides enhanced hygiene protection for cans throughout the entire supply chain. WaveSafe is the world’s first covered flexible multi-pack carrier for cans. In addition to the advanced WaveGrip carrier it features an additional layer of recyclable and photodegradable PE material, which covers the top of the cans.